On 10/28/2014 10:45 PM, Carl Spitzer wrote:
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 02:34 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Yes, there was a time when the big selling point of linux was that it would work on a minimal machine. What ever happened to that ethic?
Well I still do email on a PII under SuSE 10.0 and just in case I saved all the RPMs for upgrading and resurrection. I just have to dig for them as my backup disks are a little disorganized.
And I have under my desk a 800MHz single core CPU with 1G of memory (I found some more chips, it used to be 500M) that I upgraded from mageia2 to 12.1. It runs Postfix for outgoing mail, a variety of fetchmail to a local archive and a dovecot server so that the mail can be read by myself and anyone else interested on the LAN. It also runs a BIND9 DNS server and DHCP server. Its headless and is managed by a ssh connection. A second similar machine run a wiki under apache. Its FosWIKI abut I'm thinking of setting up Docuwiki as well. The key here is that these underpowered machines are quite adequate for the tasks they are used for. This is a small department, less than 50 people using the DNS, about 5 using the mail archive and the wiki is an information & 'suggestions box' service as well as a 'documentation/Q&A repository'. -- All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org